Mission Summary
20190918N1 Aircraft 49RF
JPSS Satellite Ground Truth

Aircraft Crew (49RF)
Aircraft CommanderJason Mansour
Co-pilotRebecca Waddington
Co-pilotMatthew Nardi
Crew CheifAngel Negron
Flight DirectorRich Henning
Flight DirectorJames Carpenter
System EngineerCharles Lynch
Data TechnicianSteve Paul
AVAPSLeonard Miller
AVAPSNick Underwood

Science crew (49RF)
DropsondeJohn KaplanHRD

Figure 1. Flight plan for 20190918N1 mission for Jerry

Figure 2. Actual flight track for 20190918N1 mission for Jerry

Mission Plan :

NOAA49 will fly from Barbados around Tropical Storm Jerry to provided ground truth for the NESDIS/Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS). .

Mission Summary :

Take off Landing
Barbados, BWI 12:46 UTC Barbados, BWI 20:17 UTC
Expendables 36 GPS sondes
1 bad

HURRICANE SYNOPTIC SURVEILLANCE MISSION PLAN: JERRY GENESIS
Prepared by the Hurricane Research Division
September 17, 2019 3:25:42 PM
Aircraft: N49RF
Proposed takeoff: 18/1300Z
DROP LOCATION TABLE
# LAT LON RAD/AZM Time
deg min deg min nmi deg hr:min
1 20 3056 00 1:09
2I20 3054 43 1:18
3I20 3053 26 1:28
4I20 3052 09 1:38
5I20 3050 51 1:48
6I20 3049 34 1:58
7I20 3048 17 2:07
8 20 3047 00 2:18
9I19 3047 00 2:26
10 18 3047 00 2:36
11I18 3048 17 2:46
12I18 3049 34 2:56
13I18 3050 51 3:05
14I18 3052 09 3:15
15I18 3053 26 3:25
16I18 3054 43 3:35
17 18 3056 00 3:46
18I17 4556 00 3:52
19 17 0056 00 4:00
20I17 0054 45 4:09
21 17 0053 30 4:20
22I16 1553 30 4:26
23 15 3053 30 4:33
24I15 3054 45 4:43
25 15 3056 00 4:54
26 14 3056 00 5:03
27 14 3054 00 5:20
28S15 2752 07 120/2705:38
29I16 2051 38 5:47
30S17 1251 08 120/3305:55
31I17 1350 08 6:04
32S17 1349 07 120/0306:12
33I16 2248 38 6:21
34S15 3048 08 120/0906:29
35S13 4849 14 120/1506:46
36S13 4951 20 120/2107:04
37S14 3352 07 120/2407:13

Mission Evaluation / Problems :


Mission Data :

Flight Director's log | Flight Director's manifest | NetCDF data |


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